Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 2 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 3 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 4 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 5 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 6 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean I could have been discussing it with some of your clients , like the Contessa Mantero ? ’ |
| 8 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 9 | Back when Abba were in their '50s , around 1975 say , they would have called this sort of record a hustle record and huge black men with names like Fatback would have been playing it for rich white nightclubs . |
| 10 | If the police had never set up the jewellers shop , they would , in my judgment , have been doing the same thing , though of course they would not have been doing it in that shop , at that time . |
| 11 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 12 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 13 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 14 | Well I better not tell them because it will completely spoil their holiday but erm it 's h it 's interesting because we 've been mentioning it to other people I 'm sure they 've never . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 16 | You 've been doing it to each other all the time but if I were to hurt you or if anybody else here were to hurt you physically or mentally how many times would you forgive them ? |
| 17 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
| 18 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 19 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 20 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 21 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 23 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 24 | We 've been planning it since last year and we 've been saving every penny . |
| 25 | but , because I 've been knocking it off that bit earlier |
| 26 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 27 | I have been buying it since 1967 , every single copy ! |
| 28 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 29 | Nuclear energy has become an important tool for plant breeders and Russian horticultural researchers have been putting it to good use in their iris-breeding programmes . |
| 30 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |